The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.
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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession it is by them the mob are influenced it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages. . .
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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